Unfortunately, even if you won't be using it during your actual work, data structures and algorithms is still part of the interview process. If you don't feel

Unfortunately, even if you won't be using it during your actual work, data structures and algorithms is still part of the interview process. If you don't feel like going on a crusade to change the whole interview system, get yourself "cracking the coding interview", learn the basic stuff: linked-lists, trees, hash-map, search, sort, big-o Honestly there isn't that much you need to know. and just bite the bullet.